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Boa (Serpent), Paris
Boa (Serpent), Paris
Boa (Serpent), Paris

Boa (Serpent), Paris

Artist (Hungarian, born 1962)
Date1996 (printed 2005)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 21 5/8 × 18 1/8 in. (54.9 × 46 cm)
Support: 23 9/16 × 19 15/16 in. (59.8 × 50.6 cm)
Mat: 30 × 23 15/16 in. (76.2 × 60.8 cm)
Support: 22 1/8 × 18 5/8 in. (56.2 × 47.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Zsolt-Peter Barta, 2005
Object number2005.33.4
DescriptionThe skeleton of a snake is curled into a ball with the ribs protruding out from the sides of the vertebrae. In the center of the skeleton are three black lines that form a y-shaped form. The background is a solid white with a thick dark border surrounding.


Text Entries
"I began this series more than 15 years ago as part of "Natures Mortes". New CodeX are split into four parts: Human, Animal, Plant and Object. My works stand on a thin borderline. On one hand, we look at these photos with emotion, on other hand these words are seems like scientific objects, experimental achievements and simple demonstration tools without emotion. Indeed, I am working with special medical or demonstration objects or in fact simulating them myself to who that - in our technological works- we can no longer use traditional, classical art metaphors for human bodies, animals, plants and objects. The photo what I present relate to the topic at hand via their map-like character, the logic of networked systems. Two Hands comprises two independent glass, stored in specimen jars, used in medical faculty studies in Rome. These objects represent the density and dispersal of the arterial network as is revealed on removal of the skin. The human genetic structure, the nervous and vascular system manifest networks that re interior pats of "communication" developed for the construction or the operation of human body. I found these two objects in one room, but not together. I built for "one" object, because the human body has two hand." - Zsolt-Péter Barta
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Terms
    Recto
    Raymond Lopez
    May 1999
    Untitled
    Garo Z. Antreasian
    1980
    Counting Lessons in Purgatory
    Joel-Peter Witkin
    1982
    Y
    Richard Diebenkorn
    1986
    Paris
    Ernest L. Blumenschein
    circa 1895
    Untitled
    Garo Z. Antreasian
    1975
    Chinleos
    Gendron Jensen
    2008